Br. Josiah Leander

Thomas Joseph Noone was born on March 26, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of John and Mary Higgins Noone. His father worked for the gas company in Chicago. Tom attended De La Salle High School in Chicago and entered the Juniorate of the Brothers in 1931 and the Novitiate in 1933. He completed his Scholasticate at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, and received his first teaching assignment to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1937. He was transferred to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1938 but returned to St. Joe in 1939. In 1940 he was assigned to Boys Town in Nebraska and spent a year there before being transferred to St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, and later that year to Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1948 he was assigned to St. Peter High School in Jefferson City, Missouri, but soon was moved to De La Salle High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He was sent to St. Patrick High School in Chicago in 1955 and remained there for six years before being transferred to Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1961. He returned to St. Patrick High School in Chicago in 1963 where he remained until his last assignment at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1966. He taught there until his retirement in 1981 and remained in the community until his death at age eighty-nine on January 17, 2005. He had been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seventy-two years.